On July 24, Warner Bros. is releasing a horror/slasher film titled "Orphan" (http://orphan-movie.warnerbros.com). I've watched the trailer several times (horrific, I know). But the trailer is so heartbreaking. Just the message in the trailer gives misinformation about adoption, reinforcing the very myth that adoptive communities try to hard to eradicate; that all older adoptees are troubled.
Personally, I can't believe Warner Bros., Dark Castle Entertinment, and Appian Way had the nerve to make this movie. How many hundreds of thousands of adopted children will see this trailer on national television and hear an adoptee say "it must be hard to love an adopted child as much as you own". How many attachment disordered children will be sent back to therapy because they get ideas from the young girl's actions? How many families could be sent into turmoil because of one movie?
The emotional impact and damage to adopted children is far too great a risk. However, "Without having seen the movie or read the script, it is hard to know if the entire movie is sending a ghastly adoption message, but the trailer certainly leads us to believe it is. This feeds the notion that older adoptees are very troubled and you should beware…. that’s not an image any of us want the general public to have of our kids. It plays into people’s deepest fears." (Examiner.com)
A Few Things You Can Do to Help Spread the Word
- boycott the movie
- tweet about this on Twitter
- sign the petition here
- spread the word to others and ask them to also boycott the movie
- post a warning about the movie ON YOUR BLOG
- contact the distributors (Warner Brothers), the producer (Dark Castle Entertainment), and the developer of the material (Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, who is also co-producing the film) and express your concern about the negative impact of the film on the cause of adoption
- join this Facebook community
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